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Berlin, Germany, 2019.
18mm is the widest lens I own, and I couldn't move back further, so I had to create this panorama from five source photos, resulting in a final image which is 9675x4801 pixels in size.
There's more in www.chm-photography.com.
Ich bin wieder zurück von einem Kurzbesuch im heißen Berlin. Im Bild das Tempodrom in der untergehenden Sonne.
I'm back again from a short visit to Berlin. The picture shows the Tempodrom in the sinking sun.
The Tempodrom (also referred to as Neues Tempodrom) is a multi-purpose event venue in Berlin.
Founded by Irene Moessinger, it opened in 1980 next to the Berlin Wall on the west side of Potsdamer Platz, housed in a large circus tent. After several changes of location, it is now housed in a permanent building in the Kreuzberg neighborhood.
TEMPODROM-Building, Berlin
Architects: Gerkan, Marg & Partner
The Tempodrom is a popular and multifunctional concert and event venue.
Its visionary architecture combines aesthetics and ecology in a ground-breaking way. The tent-like roof is the constructional summit of the building. Through the glazed opening of the roof daylight enters the venue at the zenith.
This is so close to where I live… and I wanted to shoot it for ages… but never did. Well now I did ;)
Explored February 9, 2023
Depending on the point of view, the Tempodrom, a concert hall and event location, looks like a crown or a circus tent, or – getting very close with 7 mm (=14 mm FF) – like a starship that has just landed or is ready for take-off. The intended connotaton is a circus tent because that is what the Tempodrom started as back in 1980.
Founded by former nurse Irene Moessinger (who used an 800,000 DM heritage to start the Tempodrom) as a West-Berlin subculture event location, the original Tempodrom was located on the west side of Potsdamer Platz. Due to noise complaints, it moved to the nearby Tiergarten Park five years later.
When the Tiergarten site was chosen as building ground for the new German Chancellery (after the German reunification in 1990), the Tempodrom moved to a temporary location near Ostbahnhof, before it found its final location as a solid building on the site of Anhalter Bahnhof in 2001. Anhalter Bahnhof, or what is left of it, is not far from Potsdamer Platz, the Tempodrom's original founding site, so one could say that the Tempodrom has finally come home.